Cookies and browser storage

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On the school results pages (/results, /school) no analytics runs whatever you chose.

• biasly:reader · browser storage

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  type size, font family, reading mode and the other settings on the settings page

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:reader-place · browser storage

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  your chosen constituency and label language

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:reader-progress:<article id> · browser storage

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  this site

  Holds

  how far you scrolled in an article, so you can resume it

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:onboarding · browser storage

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  the region, languages and beats you picked when you started

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:saved-searches · browser storage

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  this site

  Holds

  your saved searches

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:region · browser storage

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  the region the home page is filtered to

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:theme · browser storage

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  light, dark or automatic colour scheme

  Lasts

  until you clear it

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly:lite · cookie

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  one bit: whether low-bandwidth image mode is on

  Lasts

  one year

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly_consent · cookie

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  your analytics and ads choices, whether you affirmed you are 18 or older, the policy version you answered and the day you answered — no identifier

  Lasts

  twelve months, or until the policy version changes

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly_ad_region · cookie

  Set by

  this site

  Holds

  which advertising-consent regime applies to your request (strict or standard) — never your country

  Lasts

  to be confirmed

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• biasly-v2-pages · offline cache

  Set by

  this site's service worker

  Holds

  copies of article pages you have already opened, so they stay readable offline (the most recent 40), plus an offline fallback page

  Lasts

  until you clear site data, or the next service-worker version

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

The browser-storage entries can be cleared at any time from Settings → Data & privacy.

• __session, __client_uat · cookie

  Set by

  Clerk

  Holds

  your sign-in session; set when you sign in or create an account

  Lasts

  the length of your session, as set by Clerk

  Needs your consent

  no — needed for the feature to work

• ph_* (cookie and localStorage) · cookie

  Set by

  PostHog

  Holds

  a pseudonymous analytics id and session state

  Lasts

  as set by PostHog

  Needs your consent

  yes — not set until you accept

• Google ad cookies · cookie

  Set by

  Google AdSense

  Holds

  identifiers used to serve and measure ads, on this site and on Google's own domains

  Lasts

  as set by Google

  Needs your consent

  yes — not set until you accept

To be completed by counsel · the exact cookie names and lifetimes each vendor sets under its current configuration, and the notice wording required in each region served.